30+ Useful HTML5 Tutorials For Web Designers

June 3rd, 2010 Ntt.cc

Although Adobe Announced Dreamweaver CS5 HTML5 Pack Preview Download Available some weeks ago, as most of us know HTML 5 has created a big buzz on internet and is sure to give Adobe a hard time. HTML 5 is aimed to create a comprehensive and all-in-one markup language for front-end development, able to provide a qualitative information on the different elements of the page.Below are over 30 useful tutorials to get you started with HTML 5.

I’ve been doing a bit of experimenting with the Canvas and Video tags in HTML5 lately, and found some cool features hiding in plain sight. One of those is the Canvas.drawImage() api call. Here is the description on the draft site.

HTML5 is the future of web development but believe it or not you can start using it today. HTML5 is much more considerate to semantics and accessibility as we don’t have to throw meaningless div’s everywhere. It introduces meaningful tags for common elements such as navigations and footers which makes much more sense and are more natural.

This tutorial introduces how to make a HTML5 web template, using some of the new features brought by CSS3 and jQuery, with the scrollTo plug-in. As HTML5 is still a work in progress, you can optionally download a XHTML version of the template.

This tutorial serves as a hands-on introduction to HTML5 and CSS3. It provides information about the functionality and syntax for many of the new elements and APIs that HTML5 has to offer, as well as the new selectors, effects, and features that CSS3 brings to the table.

Finally, it will show you how to develop a sample Web page that harnesses many of these new features. By the time you have finished this tutorial, you will be ready to build Web sites or applications of your own that are powered by HTML5 and CSS3.

Much of HTML 5’s feature set involves JavaScript APIs that make it easier to develop interactive web pages but there are a slew of new elements that allow you extra semantics in your conventional Web 1.0 pages. In order to investigate these, let’s look at marking up a blog.

In today’s post, we would like to showcase some of the best blogs and websites in the industry built with HTML5+CSS3. At the end of the post we would like you to check out detailed write-ups and tutorials that aims to demonstrate how we will be building websites when the specifications are finalized and the browser vendors have implemented them. Let’s get started marking up the blog page.

HTML5 is definitely the flavor of the month, with everyone in the design community getting excited about its release. In this tutorial we’ll get a taste of what’s to come by building a cool iPhone app website using a HTML5 structure, and visual styling with some CSS3 effects.

Here we’re going to take a look at how to style a beautiful HTML5 form using some advanced CSS and latest CSS3 techniques. I promise you will want to style your own forms after you’ve read this article.

HTML 5 borns to improve interoperability and to reduce development costs for websites and web applications. It is not a W3C recommendation yet, and for this reason you have to read information contained in the article like a simple overview on how we might work with new technologies in the (next) future.

During the introduction I’ve described a scenario in which we don’t need Photoshop to make a good work and create a nice web design. It’s possible, but the initial steps are very important in this case. You need to focus and formalize the requests of the client and create a good plan to work directly with the code.

HTML 5 provides some great new features for web designers who want to code readable, semantically-meaningful layouts. However, support for HTML 5 is still evolving, and Internet Explorer is the last to add support. In this tutorial, we’ll create a common layout using some of HTML 5’s new semantic elements, then use JavaScript and CSS to make our design backwards-compatible with Internet Explorer. Yes, even IE 6.

In this tutorial, we are going to build a blog page using next-generation techniques from HTML 5 and CSS 3. The tutorial aims to demonstrate how we will be building websites when the specifications are finalized and the browser vendors have implemented them. If you already know HTML and CSS, it should be easy to follow along.

Ok, so there are a lot of articles out there on HTML5, especially since Google Wave arrived (because it’s the first major app to run on the language), but all the information that you need to know in order to start using it now is either too complicated, or spread out over various websites / articles / tutorials. Hopefully in this article we’ll be able to amalgamate and condense a lot of this information so that anyone with basic HTML knowledge can start using it.

HTML5 is coming quicker than a lot of web designers are probably aware. You’ve probably seen the stories that it won’t actually be usable until 2022 but in reality, you can actually start using it today. Not all web browsers support CSS2.1, not all visitors are using software capable of using JavaScript but that doesn’t stop us from using it and it shouldn’t stop you using HTML5 either, and here’s why…

The Most prominent additions in HTML 5 are tags like <header>, <footer>, <aside>, <nav>, <audio> etc. HTML 5 will also include APIs for drawing graphics on screen, storing data offline, dragging and dropping, and a lot more . Site layout would be easily understandable and in code, tags are easy to understand as well Like the few tags i listed above clearly explains that :

<header> = Header (Head area of the site)

<nav> = Navigation (Menu/Navigation Area)

<footer> = Footer Area

<aside> = An area on a side (Side Bar)

We will make a very very Simple web page with HTML 5 and styling with CSS 3. This is how the final result will look like :

The HTML5 specification has added quite a few interesting and useful tags for structuring your markup. For a majority of everyday uses, these tags will replace many of our typical div entries from our code. So let’s dig in.

The HTML 5 specification includes lots of new features, one of which is the canvas element. HTML 5 canvas gives you an easy and powerful way to draw graphics using JavaScript. For each canvas element you can use a "context" (think about a page in a drawing pad), into which you can issue JavaScript commands to draw anything you want. Browsers can implement multiple canvas contexts and the different APIs provide the drawing functionality.

One of the new features in HTML5 is native drag and drop. Surprisingly, Internet Explorer has had support for this since version 5.5; in fact, the HTML5 implementation is based on IE’s support. In this week’s Premium tutorial and screencast, we’ll look at how to implement native drag and drop to build a simple shopping cart interface.

After a week where confusion about the future of the Flash platform has been piled on to developers by moves outside their control, we present the second in our series of HTML 5 Canvas for Flash Developers. We call these tutorials, but really they are more like explorations. We are learning this thing at the same time you are learning it. hopefully these will be beneficial in the long run.

As far as we’ve come using HTML 4 and CSS 2.1, however, we can do better. We can refine the structure of our documents and increase their semantic precision. We can sharpen the presentation of our stylesheets and advance their stylistic flexibility. As we continue to push the boundaries of existing languages, HTML 5 and CSS 3 are quickly gaining popularity, revealing their collective power with some exciting new design possibilities.

View Source is a new series where we crack open cool web sites and applications and detail how they were made, step by step.Today we will take a look at the Webkit Sticky Notes demo that was created when Webkit first landed it’s HTML 5 SQL storage support, In this demo you can create new sticky notes that persist themselves into the local SQL storage and can be accessed while offline. When a sticky note is closed it ‘swooshes’ offscreen with a nice animated effect.

With the release of Chapter 1 of Palm webOS by O’Reilly, Palm has confirmed that local storage will indeed be handled by HTML5′s new local storage functionality.

If you haven’t been able to find any tutorials on HTML5′s storage capability, you’re not alone. After looking around, we realized that the HTML5 spec is still at such an early revision that there are few resources out there that describe how it should be used. But with a little digging, we found this excellent little HTML5 database application over at webkit.org. We eagerly grabbed the source code, deconstructed it, and we’re proud to bring you the first webOS / HTML5 database storage tutorial!

It’s a guide to some of the currently-supported HTML 5 features and some who are currently using it. Very useful for beginners.

The reason that opinion is so divided is that HTML 5 is more than just a markup syntax for documents, like HTML 4 is. One clue is in the working group’s original name, before it was brought into the W3C camp: Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group. The original goal for HTML 5 was to make it easier to develop Web applications. There’s evidence of this in the rash of new JavaScript APIs and support for offline development, some of which are already available in a browser near you.